A BUSINESS MAN'S WORRIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2170, 31 August 1920, Page 4

A BUSINESS MAN'S WORRIES.

A certain business man, upon receiving a request to send a cheque for goods bought, sent the following, letter; “For the following reasons I am unable to send you the cheque asked for. I have been held up, held down, sandbagged, walked on, sat on, flattened out and squeezed. Pirst by the Government for income tax, war tax, excess profit lax, war bonus, capital stock tax, registration lax; and then by every society and organisation that the inventive mind of man can invent to extract what 1 may or may not possess. I have been solicited by the Society of John the Baptist, the Women's Belief Society, the Navy League, the Bed Cross, the Black Cross, the Double Cross, the Children’s Home, the Dorcas Society, the Y.M.C.A., the Y.W.C.A., the Jewish relief, and every other hospital in town or country —and -then, on top of it all, comes (lie Salvation Army, The .Government has so governed my business that I don't know who owns it. I am inspected, suspected, examined and re-examined, informed, required and commanded; so I do not know who I am, where I am, and why 1 am here. All I know, I am supposed to be an inexhaustible supply of money for every known need; desire ox*,hope of the human race; and, because I will not sell all 1 have and go out and beg, borrow or steal money to give away, I have been cussed, discussed, boycotted, talked to, talked about, lied about, hefd up, hung up, robbed, and nearly ruined; and the only reason I am clinging to life is to see what is coming next.”